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Example sentences for: cease-fire
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The NYT reports inside that U.S. officials have been able to protect an eggshell-fragile cease-fire in Kosovo.
Chechen leaders called for peace talks, but Russia rejected the offer, saying that Islamic militants would use a cease-fire to rebuild their forces.
In Johannesburg yesterday, rebel leaders who tried to topple the Congolese government of Laurent Kabila, drawing five countries into a war in the process, signed a cease-fire.
In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA called off its 14-month cease-fire last Friday, prompting public outrage.
Which is why it's surprising that the LAT commits the unclarity of saying that the earlier cease-fire "ended without warning in February, 1996 with a London truck bomb that killed two people," without mentioning that the explosion was attributed to the IRA.
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